Talk about coming attractions: Here comes the Tribeca Film and Family Festival, the Sequel.

For the second year, Tribeca will be the backdrop for glitzy Hollywood premieres, film workshops and panels, hundreds of screenings, and a repeat of the fair on Greenwich Street that last year drew nearly 100,000 people.

The nine-day series of events, from May 3 to 11, will be even more ambitious than last year’s hastily assembled festival that was intended, in part, to invigorate local businesses and raise spirits in the wake of Sept. 11.

Organizers of the street fair were scheduled to attend the March 6 meeting of Community Board 1’s Tribeca Committee to discuss the event, to take place Saturday, May 10. (See Community Calendar, page 18.)

Expansion of the Family Festival will be up for discussion. Last year the fair ran along Greenwich Street from Beach to Duane streets. This year, organizers hope to extend it one block in each direction, to Hubert on the north and Reade on the south, and onto side streets, to accommodate booths for more restaurants and retailers. Local craftspeople are invited to sell their wares this year.

“We need a place to put them. We pretty much maxed out on Greenwich Street,” said Peter Downing, the lead organizer of the festival.

Like last year’s event, the festival boasts a plethora of free activities—poetry jams, puppet shows, face painting, street performers, and acts by local groups, to name a few

The Family Festival has added three days (Saturday and Sunday, May 3 and 4 and Sunday, May 11) for family performance workshops, panel discussions and guest speakers.

In February, street festival organizers asked the Washington Market Park Board to consider having puppet performers in the park during the festival. Last year, said Downing, it “seemed a little sad” that the park was not part of the festivities. But the board declined. “I love the idea of the park as an oasis,” said David Drane.

Puppetry, however, is still expected to be part of the festival, and there may be storytelling in the park. Unlike last year, the park board will not limit admission to the park unless it becomes overcrowded.

Many details have yet to be worked out about both the film and family festivals, but updates and ticket information are available at www.tribecafilmfestival.org.